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by ralferoo 2mo ago
It's even easier to detect from that. From the project writeup Q&As: 'The firmware snoops for the string "password:xyz" and inhibits the write of "xyz". Otherwise, yes this would be very insecure.' So
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
> Where did you get that the US emits 45x the UK? From the GP [1], US emits 4,632,164,876 and UK emits 292,419,359 tonnes CO2. Which, sorry my bad, is actually only 15x. Looks like I did the ratio of China to UK which is 45x. But either
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
> But their actions are clearly no the actions of a country who “believes in climate change”. I'd be willing to bet that you've not been to China. Shenzhen is a very green city, I'll go into that later, but also Beijing an
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
One way to beat this in terms of coding efficiency would be to use something like rANS (explanation [1], code [2]). You would have a more complicated decoder with rANS though, even if you removed the frequency table lookup (because always 1
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
You seem to think China is the evil polluter here. Just sort by per capita, and you'll see it's not even in the top 10% most polluting per capita. There are plenty of large (depending on your definition of large) countries above i
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
"big number bad" isn't a great way of analysing the data, because China has a massively larger population. The US emits 49% more CO2 per capita than China. And even with the much larger rate of increase, 0.79% to US' 0.3
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
Seems to just be a promotion for the Voronoi app, which it mentions multiple times. The first image contains all the useful content of the entire article, but it's limited to only the top 25 countries when measuring tourists/popul
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
Vogon Poetry [1]? [1] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Vogon_poetry
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
First I've heard of ATHD command. Pretty sure my modem would ignore anything after ATH, and if you did ATDT would fail without a dial tone. But obviously, you couldn't send them as one command, but as separate commands. That might
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
Physical mail costs money, but 80% of the mail I receive is junk mail that somebody has paid to send me. Of the 20% of mail that is useful to me, it's still pretty much all just from corporations who have decided to send me a physical
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
Although on Windows, the current directory is checked before PATH, unlike UNIX-based systems that require the current directory to be explicitly included in the PATH if that's the behaviour you want. So for any repository with git.exe
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
Not sure about whether it's the first to have a leading zero or not. Certainly the -04 at the end suggests it was one of the first in the 04- block, but then again most banks have multiple sort codes, so who knows. I'm not really
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
Not investigated what framework it's using, but it looks like a mobile app compiled to WASM. It's just something I need to put up with I guess, it's just annoying when I need to generate a bunch of reports every year for my c
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
From what I can tell, Trump mostly doesn't like them because you can see some from his vanity golf course in Scotland. He has absolutely zero interest in the significant benefits they provide, he only cares about the fact he can see th
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
My pet peeve is in the "create a report" section of InvestEngine (useful for doing reports aligned to tax year). If you try to type a date at all, the year always ends up as 000n and no amount of typing numbers will get it to acce
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
Especially in the UK, bank sort codes are typically presented to the user as e.g. 04-00-04 by every banking app or website, but whenever you have to enter them (e.g. to pay someone else) they usually require you to not enter the dashes. Som
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
Yeah, apparently my views match others 85% of the time, but I thought it was funny about how my views of what is a vehicle differs a lot from other people on ones I thought would be not controversial. Things like only 15% of people think a
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by ralferoo 3mo ago
> Left-handedness does not seem to be purely genetic. Two left-handed parents have a left-handed child only 25% to 30% of the time. If one identical twin is left-handed, there’s only a 20% to 30% chance the other is too. This suggests a
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by ralferoo 3mo ago
Quite the opposite. The earth's rotation can vary by quite a few seconds each year. But over hundreds of years, the variations mostly cancel out, which is why I think trying to add or remove leap seconds are a bad idea. The only people
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by ralferoo 3mo ago
To me, it's useful because it frames it in terms of social connections in the target country and because how it works with an adjective. So, British expats in Spain and Chinese expats in Spain are likely to socialise in their specific
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by ralferoo 3mo ago
Yeah, I'd like some kind of reward for having done the previous words in 4s each. Just when I get to a hard one (for me) it can take a really long time to spot it. Also, maybe having a button (and also a key press) to randomly rearrang
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by ralferoo 3mo ago
And they are correct according to the meaning of the word. Expats simply means someone who resides outside of their native country. I guess colloquially it probably implies moving somewhere as an adult, but the word itself doesn't carr
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by ralferoo 3mo ago
What happened to the original files that you uploaded to Myspace? Why wouldn't you have made any attempt to preserve any of copy of your data anyway? Even if you believed the files would stay online forever, it's surely always mor
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by ralferoo 3mo ago
Hehe, I used to create a folder as some variant of "Old" and move everything in my downloads folder into it once or twice a year, and with a lesser frequency my documents. At one point when I realised this had got about 10 levels
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by ralferoo 3mo ago
Converting that ID to hex gives 18,000F,C8CB,93CC which rather looks like 32 bits of random data plus the prefix 0x18000f or possibly 40-48 bits of time in ms granularity from some epoch.
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by ralferoo 3mo ago
> Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter Was this posted by AI? The title is exactly backwards compared to the original on the repo "riddle — the diary of Tom Riddle, for the reMarkable Paper Pro&quot
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by ralferoo 3mo ago
Development costs are far from their lowest at end-of-cycle. That's exactly when the prototype development kits come out of small scale testing (maybe tens of units, all incredibly expensive bespoke units, probably hand soldered and as
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by ralferoo 3mo ago
Interesting. Do the longer ones have some provision for increasing in line with inflation? AFAIK the 99 year leases are usually for a fixed amount every year, which obviously shrinks in real terms over time, but given that you'd want t
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by ralferoo 3mo ago
Glad I saw this - I wasn't aware tourists were allowed to rent vehicles at all. I knew you needed a Chinese licence, but hadn't heard that there was now a tourist licence and as far as I knew you could only do the regular test if
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by ralferoo 3mo ago
"almost" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here... While the majority of flats are leasehold, by far the vast majority of property in England is freehold. Only a fifth is leasehold. While technically a leasehold has a fixed term and

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